Carbon Capture and Storage

EU Coal Prices Could Hurt Low-Carbon Competitiveness

Reuters | Posted 05.25.2012

(The author is a Reuters market analyst. The views expressed are his own.) By Gerard Wynn LONDON, May 25 (Reuters) - Li...

'Green News Report' - March 8, 2012

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.08.2012

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Obama fir...

The Climate Post: Tar Sands Pipeline Gets Green Light in Environmental Review

Mason Inman | Posted 11.02.2011

Mason Inman

In a major step last week, the State Department published its final environmental review saying the pipeline wouldn't impact most resources.

Green News Report: January 11, 2011 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: The final...

President Obama: Fired Up for Clean Energy or Dirty Coal?

Erich Pica | Posted 05.25.2011

Erich Pica

By cracking down on the coal industry's devastating pollution, President Obama has an opportunity to really energize activists and community leaders across the country hungry for real climate leadership.

Energy Sec. Chu Calls for More Black Lung, Strip-Mining, Coal Ash, Coal Slurry and Coalfield Poverty

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011

Jeff Biggers

Chu triumphantly told his Big Coal listeners that he would "save coal" by investing billions into still infeasible, prohibitively expensive, unproven and fanciful carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology.

Green News Report -- April 27, 2010 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app! IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Remembering li...

Difficult Questions in the Wake of a Coal Tragedy

Erich Pica | Posted 05.25.2011

Erich Pica

Instead of clinging to the status quo, West Virginia's elected officials must use this tragedy as an opportunity to ask difficult questions about the future of coal in West Virginia. Here are some of mine.

Fossil Fuel Industry's 65-Page Strategy to Sell Carbon and Capture Technology

Kevin Grandia | Posted 05.25.2011

Kevin Grandia

A report shows how the coal, oil and tar sands industry, along with government, plans to sell carbon and capture and storage technology to a skeptical public.

Green News Report -- February 18, 2010 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Wacky weather Down Under; San Francisco's fog of change; Permafrost shifts North ... PLUS: GOP ...

The Clean Coal Con

John DeCock | Posted 05.25.2011

John DeCock

"Clean coal" may be a swell marketing label, but there are many other aspects of the fuel cycle of coal which make it dirty, destructive and harmful to health and the environment.

The Puzzle of Coal: American Ingenuity in the Cleaner Energy Mix

Monte Atwell | Posted 05.25.2011

Monte Atwell

Coal is our most abundant and cost effective source of power and generates half of US electricity today -- abandoning it is simply not an option.

An Open Letter to President Obama: No More "Clean" Coal

Gillian Caldwell | Posted 05.25.2011

Gillian Caldwell

Thursday, February 11, 2010 President Barack Obama The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., NW Washington, DC 20500 Dear President Obama, Thank you ...

Obama's Rope-Line Debate on Coal

William S. Becker | Posted 05.25.2011

William S. Becker

As the dirtiest and the most abundant of fossil fuels, coal is a dangerous bridge to a clean energy economy. How has the president who vowed to restore America's leadership on climate change become coal's First Friend?

An Old Prayer for Clean Coal: Strip-Mining Jesus

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011

Jeff Biggers

"And upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." Matthew: 16:13-18. Declaring his intent to chart a p...

Let There Be Light! Obama's Budget Delivers on Energy

Mike Signer | Posted 05.25.2011

Mike Signer

After years of virtual inaction from the Bush administration on a clean economy, the president's new budget is a politically savvy, substantively brave, and altogether impressive collection of proposals.

Carbon Storage Bill In New Mexico

AP | SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN | Posted 05.25.2011

SANTA FE, N.M. — Rancher Jack Chatfield sees untapped value in the spaces that lie beneath New Mexico's dusty landscape. But he said the state n...

Carbon Management: A Call to Action for the U.S. and China

Scott Daniels | Posted 05.25.2011

Scott Daniels

As President Obama prepares to set foot on Chinese soil for the first time today, the United States and China, the globe's leading greenhouse gas producers, are engaged in a classic standoff.

Carbon Capture: A Cheaper, Neglected Solution To CO2 Levels

nytimes.com | John Tierney | Posted 05.25.2011

Governments are doing practically nothing to study the removal of carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere, but this technology could be a much che...

Blackout: Dwindling Coal Reserves and the Siren Song of "Clean Coal"

David Roberts | Posted 05.25.2011

David Roberts

If we don't begin massive investment in renewable power sources, civilization could be at risk before the end of the century. Such is the stark conclusion of Blackout, one of the scariest books I've ever read.

Clean Coal: Fuel of the Future or a Fallacy?

John Gartner | Posted 05.25.2011

John Gartner

The government will spend more than $1 billion on research on a prototype coal power plant that will capture and sequester the CO2 produced.

Green News Report - June 4, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: Obama moves mountains -- unfortunately; Coal state Democrats heart coal; Chemical industry hearts BPA; PLUS: Big Bellies now...

Kiss of Death for Carbon Capture?

Graham Hill | Posted 05.25.2011

Graham Hill

Carbon capture. The Norwegians love it, as does every utility bent on building coal-fired generation. It's like a free "Get out of Jail" card, and probably the biggest bunch of hot air ever.

Can the U.S. and China Cooperate on Coal?

Deborah Seligsohn | Posted 05.25.2011

Deborah Seligsohn

With 20% of the world's population and an economy that continues to grow, China has 14% of the world's coal reserves, but less than 1% of the world's oil and gas reserves.

NBC Confirms That "Clean Coal" is an Oxymoron

Josh Dorner | Posted 05.25.2011

Josh Dorner

It is stunning to see an accurate and honest assessment of what our continued reliance on coal would mean: a crime against the climate. And clean coal? A 50 percent increase in electricity rates.